''Roaring Frontiers'' is a 1941 American
Western
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film directed by
Lambert Hillyer
Lambert Harwood Hillyer (July 8, 1893 – July 5, 1969) was an American film director and screenwriter.
Biography
Lambert Harwood Hillyer was born July 8, 1893, in Tyner, Indiana. His mother was character actress Lydia Knott. A graduate o ...
and starring
Tex Ritter
Woodward Maurice Ritter (January 12, 1905 – January 2, 1974) was a pioneer of American country music, a popular singer and actor from the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter acting family (son John, grandsons Jason an ...
,
Wild Bill Elliott
Wild Bill Elliott (born Gordon Nance, October 16, 1904 – November 26, 1965) was an American film actor. He specialized in playing the rugged heroes of B Westerns, particularly the Red Ryder series of films.
Early life
Elliott was born Gor ...
and
Ruth Ford
Ruth Ford (July 7, 1911 – August 12, 2009) was an American actress and model. Her brother was the bohemian surrealist Charles Henri Ford. Their parents owned or managed hotels in the American South, and the family regularly moved.
Life an ...
.
[Parish & Pitts p.177]
Plot
Cast
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Wild Bill Elliott
Wild Bill Elliott (born Gordon Nance, October 16, 1904 – November 26, 1965) was an American film actor. He specialized in playing the rugged heroes of B Westerns, particularly the Red Ryder series of films.
Early life
Elliott was born Gor ...
as Wild Bill Hickok
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Tex Ritter
Woodward Maurice Ritter (January 12, 1905 – January 2, 1974) was a pioneer of American country music, a popular singer and actor from the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter acting family (son John, grandsons Jason an ...
as Tex Martin
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Ruth Ford
Ruth Ford (July 7, 1911 – August 12, 2009) was an American actress and model. Her brother was the bohemian surrealist Charles Henri Ford. Their parents owned or managed hotels in the American South, and the family regularly moved.
Life an ...
as Reba Bailey
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Frank Mitchell as Cannonball
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Bradley Page
Bradley Page (September 8, 1901 – December 8, 1985) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1931 and 1943.
Selected filmography
* '' Sporting Blood'' (1931) - Eddie Frazier (uncredited)
* ''X Marks the Spot ...
as Hawk Hammond
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Tristram Coffin as Bert
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Hal Taliaferro
Floyd Taliaferro Alderson (November 13, 1895 – February 10, 1980) was an American film actor who specialized in westerns. After serving in the Great War, he began his career in the era of silent films, when he frequently used the name Wally ...
as Link Twiddle
* Francis Walker as Boot Hill - Henchman
* Joe McGuinn as Knuckles - Henchman
*
George Chesebro
George Newell Chesebro (July 29, 1888 – May 28, 1959) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 400 films between 1915 and 1954. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and died in Los Angeles, California.
Partial filmography
* ''Mi ...
as Red - Bartender
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Charles Stevens as Moccasin
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Hank Bell
Hank Bell (January 21, 1892 – February 4, 1950) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 370 films between 1920 and 1950. He was born in Los Angeles, California, and died in Hollywood, California
Hollywood is a neighborho ...
as Hank - Stage driver
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Lew Meehan
James Lew Meehan (September 7, 1890 – August 10, 1951) was an American film actor.
Meehan appeared in more than 200 films between 1921 and 1947. He was often the main villain in silent Westerns, but in sound films he was usually an "anon ...
as Henchman
References
Bibliography
* Bond, Johnny. ''The Tex Ritter Story''. Chappell Music Company, 1976.
*Parish, James Robert & Pitts, Michael R. ''Film directors: a guide to their American films''. Scarecrow Press, 1974.
External links
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1941 films
1941 Western (genre) films
American Western (genre) films
Films directed by Lambert Hillyer
Columbia Pictures films
1940s English-language films
1940s American films
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